Circa 2002 in art class. A collage of Eva Gardner. Each shade of gray was taken from various magazine clippings to emulate the gradations of her skin. It took me a long while to actually find pictures in magazines that closely matched them.
So the first week fo this project came and went. I felt that fear as I was sketching. I came to a point in my first sketch where I gave up on myself and just started doing. Just sketching... sketching. I don't think like it came out like anything good. I was looking at my friend and drawing him at the perspective I was looking at Brandon. In my second sketch with Chanelle, I got a little more comfortable, but then again, the angle to which I was looking at her was slightly skewed. But as I sketched along, I got a bit more comfortable with not being perfect... and just doing. It felt good.
From Left to right, Channelle and Brandon.
I also realized that as I was sketching, I was deciding on starting from different points in the lines I was looking at. With brandon, I started with his left eye, and with Chanelle, I started sketching from her hair. If you look at the sketches and skew them quite a bit... It would probably make for a better portrait.
The last two sketches from that evening, were of Jason and Jessica. I felt slightly comfortable with making the wrong strokes with Jason's lines... it ended up looking disproportionate from reality... and I guess I'm okay with that. Jessica's image was rendered with full line gestures throughout. Letting my pencil lightly touch the paper as I went along with each line.
Her image came out the most accurate of the first four sketches I've done. I'm glad.
The next day, I decided to force myself to sketch again with some color, and also sketch some strangers at a nearby coffee shop that I used to frequent. The results are quite different but the feeling was the same. I started from right to left, the figure in the middle is Jared.
The Sketch Project started with this post and the Manifesto is here.
A long time ago, my friends and I went up the mountain to just hang out. The air was crisp with the fragrance of the pine trees that surrounded us, the sky was partly cloudy and there was a gentle breeze. We spent some time up there and drove down to get some donuts.
I love impromptu portraits, I love the sincerity of who people are as they look at the camera, unprepared for it.
Matthew
Matt has a photoblog.
Andy
Kathleen
Jacque
Jacque is a photographer and she also has a website.
These are a few photos from a photoshoot I did for my good friend Byron Tomes. He was in need of photos for his senior recital and so, he asked me if I would be willing to take photos of him. Long story short, we hung out with Lauren, and took a bunch of photos. I did some post production work with the shots, and Lauren did some final typography.
This was my first photoshoot and I'm really glad I did it with a friend.
The final product was posters and postcards... this project was really all about Byron. He's such an amazing guitarist.
The final composition... see it with the typography at Lauren's Blog